Many of us are aware of the pro Hanafi
Hadith based work known as Atharus Sunan by Sh. Muhammad Ali al Nimawi
(d. 1322 AH/1904 CE). This work is quite popular even in our time with
Urdu versions and subsequent commentaries on it also. The work was also
translated into English and published by Turath publishing (2013) in
London. There was a reply to the Atharus Sunan entitled
أبـكـار الـمـنـن في تـنـقـيـد آثـار الـسـنـن
Abkār
al-minan fī tanqīd āthār al-sunan by the Ahle-Hadith (ghayr muqallid)
scholar known as Abdur Rahman al Mubarakpuri (d. 1934 CE). Some
admirers of al Mubarakpuri have taken this as some sort of scholarly
triumph over the original work by al-Nimawi.
What many people do not
know or like to admit if they are in the know is that al-Nimawi's son
did write a counter reply to al-Mubarakpuri's Abkar al Minan. The title
of the counter reply is al-Qawl al-Hasan fi al Radd ala Abkar al
Minan. The evidence for this can be seen in the download link and the book seems to be still out of print.
www.darultahqiq.com